Born in Maghera, County Derry, Northern Ireland, Jo Burns is a biomedical scientist and mother of three. She lives in Germany. To date, her poems have been published by A New Ulster, The Taj Mahal Review, Greensilk Journal, The Artistic Muse, Poetry Breakfast, The Galway Review andThe Honest Ulsterman, and featured in The Irish Literary Times, the Poetry NI P.O.E.T anthology and the Dove Tales anthology Identity.